CE Textlib/Basic Drawing

[Dudeman313]

How long would it take to FFMana's intro? Probably at least 2 minutes!

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Each character would probably take 0.20 to 0.25 seconds to draw, so yeah, 10 minutes seems like a good guess

[Dudeman313]

So, will this be your "revolutionary discovery of the year," or are you just getting back into TI-Basic more lately?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Well I am mostly experimenting right now. I don't know if I will finish anything in 2016 (I think I finished only 1 game in 3 years), but we never know.

[Dudeman313]

Well I am mostly experimenting right now. I don't know if I will finish anything in 2016 (I think I finished only 1 game in 3 years), but we never know.

For a guy who lives alone and is on the forums for most of the day, that's not very productive.
But you've finished/almost finished about 3 games this year?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

It's hard to get motivated to code when 90% of the time you are plagued with neck or upper back pain or are exhausted from work. Also actually my previous game was in 2013, not 2015. I released 5 games in 2013, 1 in 2015 but my previous release was in Early 2010. http://tistory.wikidot.com/kevin-ouellet

[Dudeman313]

It's hard to get motivated to code when 90% of the time you are plagued with neck or upper back pain or are exhausted from work. Also actually my previous game was in 2013, not 2015. I released 5 games in 2013, 1 in 2015 but my previous release was in Early 2010. http://tistory.wikidot.com/kevin-ouellet

Oh. Pain can be a nuisance sometimes. 
But what about this year? How many projects are you working on?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I currently have two with code written for, and three others in the planning stages. I have others that are stalled since yeara, though.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

By the way, unless I screwed up, this should be the pixel grid for CE Textlib, which alternates between 1x4 pixels and 4x4 ones, so if you were to make an image converter, this is the highest possible resolution that your image could be:




I doubt this would be very practical for mViewer GX uses, though, due to the low, slanted resolution and the fact it would take over 15 seconds to render a pic (unless hardcoded?).

[Dudeman313]

It looks okay to me, though. How long would it take to draw a simplified Flappy Bird Background to put in the back of that Flappy Bird Textlib I was making? I think I have all my progress backed up somewhere...

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Using such resolution (alternating between 1x4 and 4x4 blocks), I bet it would take 2 minutes to render. Also, some image styles might look horrible due to the slanted layout.

[Dudeman313]

What if the majority of it(maybe 3/4 of the screen, top to bottom) was a single blue rectangle, and the rest was rolling green hills?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

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{1,33,0,1,12,27,12,33,12,1,1,27,12,14
Asm(prgmTEXTLIB

For(B,7,267,26
For(A,1,28
{33,B,A,13,43,14,33,B,A,13,128,25,33,B+13,A,13,43,25,33,B+13,A,13,128,14,33,B,A+26,13,43,14,33,B,A+26,13,128,25,33,B+13,A+26,13,43,25,33,B+13,A+26,13,128,14,33,B,A+52,13,43,14,33,B,A+52,13,128,25,33,B+13,A+52,13,43,25,33,B+13,A+52,13,128,14

Asm(prgmTEXTLIB
End
End
{33,780,1,8,27,18
Asm(prgmTEXTLIB
Pause

I don't think people will want to wait through this rendering speed. By the way, drawing more stuff in a larger list doesn't improve the speed that much, because the TI-OS takes longer to store the list into Ans.


EDIT: Also this is a mockup, not actual code:



And I doubt anyone would want Walrii to look like that in his game, especially if he takes several seconds to render.

[Dudeman313]

What about only 3 rows of grass from the bottom up, the blue rectangle, and a white "Loading..." text?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

That would still be slow-ish even for a cutscene. Just with 2 rows of blocks, I got annoyed at the title screen load time and decided to make it shorter.